Mila Minotti said she was left “a little shocked” by what happened with her partner James as they left the hospital that day.

I gave birth to my first child and opted not to cut the cord-and, subsequently, the attached placenta-and allow it to fall away naturally. Cord non-severance is otherwise referred to as a lotus birth, ...

A first-time mom is getting real about motherhood in a viral TikTok video. In the clip, Talijan, a mom of a toddler-aged son, ...

The World Health Organization recommends that babies should exclusively breastfeed for at least the first six months of their ...

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, a ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

Officially launched in April 2024, birthFUND aims to improve the maternal health care system and provide families access to ...